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CFP: SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900: Living Discourse Initiative

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 invites proposals for each of the three features of its new Living Discourse Initiative. In keeping with the journal’s mission to publish readable, high caliber, and field-leading thinking, the Living Discourse Initiative seeks scholars actively working on pressing social, political, and groundbreaking issues germane to English literature 1500–1900. 

Call for Proposals: The Living Discourse Initiative

Edgar Allan Poe worked for a double audience (the popular and the critical), in double tones and manners (grim and mocking, metaphysical and pseudo-scientific). Whether he strove for alternance or interdependence between the terms “grotesque” and “arabesque” which he used to categorize his own narratives, critics such as G. R. Thompson and Dennis Eddings have argued that the former – more visible in tales such as “King Pest,” “Some Words with a Mummy,” “Lionizing,” and “Loss of Breath” -  underscored the carnivalesque, the satirical, and the hoaxical.

OGOM Conference 2025: CFPSea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river

Conference page: https://www.opengravesopenminds.com/sea-changes-2025/

Venue: The British Library, London, UK (and online) Date: 5–6 September 2025

Where: The Australian National University, Acton campus, ACT

When: Friday 11 April, 2025

Revista Hispánica Moderna is currently seeking special issue proposals. Special issues should explore innovative and significant topics within Hispanic Studies. The journal is particularly interested in proposals that cross temporalities and territories, transversally studying problems that question Modern and Early Modern fields and Iberian, Hispanic and Latin American cultures.

When proposing a Special Issue, please include:

Call for Papers: Studies in Hogg and his World 

We are seeking essay submissions pertaining to Henry James’s early stories and criticism, to be published by Vernon press. The working title of the collection is Writing as Revenge. We define James’s “early period” as anything he wrote up to The Portrait of a Lady. Please submit an abstract by October 31, 2024.

We are seeking chapter proposals for an edited collection on 'Bugs in long-19thC Eco-Literature.'

Essays in this collection will focus on a specific subgenre of eco-literature, ranging from Gothic horror to children’s fantasy.

This panel seeks proposals to approach Romanticism as a (r)evolutionary mode of thinking. We invite abstracts to revolutionize and de-border the conventional Eurocentric Romantic boundaries in genres, forms, styles, themes, cultural legacies, and critical methods. Proposals are invited to transcend Romanticism of the Romantic Era to a new timeless global Romanticism of both historicity and modernity that contributes to ideological diversity. From the old pan-European Romanticism to a new international Romanticism, reading Romantic Literature as World Literature, this panel welcomes new creative approaches to interpret works by the Romantics.

We are soliciting chapter proposals for an edited volume that investigates the origins and evolutions of gender benchmarking in Asian literature. This proposed book volume is tentatively titled Evolving Genders: The Dynamics of Narrative Benchmarking in Asian Literature.It is a collection of scholarly research outputs that examines how various agents such as ritualistic practices, family expectations, cultural orientations and even dogmatic factors contribute to the benchmarking of gender aspects as presented in Asian literature.

Population and production are two terms used to characterize the nineteenth century in Great Britain. For example, the population in England more than doubled by the end of the century due to improving hygiene (i.e., hygeia), increasing birth rate, declining mortality rate (e.g., medical advances), and prosperity. Public health led to a greater commonwealth. The rise of the Industrial Revolution through factories, transportation (e.g., railway), and the synchronization of time stoked the great migration from agrarian to industrial centers. Would the population outstrip production? How could production evolve to keep up with the rising population?

“Victorian Energies: Sucrocultures, Carbocultures, and Petrocultures in the Long Nineteenth Century": Victorian Review Special Issue 

Proposal Deadline: September 1, 2024
Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025

The Seen and Unseen in Supernatural Literary Contexts of the Long-Nineteenth Century
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference
15-17 November 2024
Jacksonville, Florida, USA

In the four hundred years since its invention in Renaissance Florence, opera has become synonymous with the grandiose, the excessive, and the melodramatic, yet it has only gained a foothold in the academy as an object of serious academic study within the past fifty years. Since then, however, an abundance of scholarship has yielded everything from formal musicological readings of operatic works to theoretical inquiries inspired by psychoanalysis into voice and performance. And topics like the relationship between opera and sovereignty in seventeenth century Italy and the appropriation of Wagner by the Third Reich underscore how opera has never been far from the political sphere in the Western world.